Steve Buttry, Dearly Departed Husband, Father and Grandfather. Former Director of Student Media, LSU's Manship School of Mass Communication

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We’re really looking forward to having you all in Minnesota this weekend for Steve’s memorial service. Below are details for the weekend. Please e-mail Mike at mwesleybuttry@gmail.com if you have any questions.

Friday

There has been a CHANGE in Friday evening’s plans. We ended up having too many people for bowling at Pinstripes (a good problem to have), so anyone who wants to get together on Friday evening can connect at Fuddruckers in Bloomington, MN. We have part of a back room/patio from 5-8 pm.

Steve’s memorial service will start at the Earl Brown Heritage Center at 4 pm. We’ll have a program that will last for a little over an hour. That will be followed by a dinner. It’s attached to the Embassy Suites where many guests will be staying. For those who are driving, there’s a bit of construction around EBHC, so allow a few extra minutes to get there.

The LSU Manship School of Mass Communication will also be holding a memorial service in honor of Steve at 4:30 Monday, April 3 at the Holliday Forum in the LSU Journalism Building. Further details are in the link below.

We’d like to thank everyone again for the continuing love and support we’ve received since Steve’s passing. This post is to remind and provide some more details for Steve’s memorial service, which will take place at 4pm, Saturday April 8, at the Earle Brown Heritage Center in Minneapolis, MN. Directions to the venue are also on the website.

For guests arriving on Friday the 7th, we welcome you to join us at Pinstripes in Edina, MN from 5pm-7pm for bowling and other fun.

If you plan to attend either event and haven’t already been in contact with one of us, please let Mike Buttry know at mwesleybuttry@gmail.com.

Finally, there are blocks of hotel rooms available for out-of-town guests under the name “Buttry Memorial.”

The public memorial for Steve Buttry will take place on 4:00pm, Saturday, April 8th at the Earle Brown Heritage Center in Minneapolis, MN. This will be a celebration of Steve’s life and we welcome everyone who wishes to attend. We are working to set up a block of rooms at the Embassy Suites hotel adjacent to the venue, which should be available to book starting on Monday, February 27. In lieu of flowers, please contribute any memorials to the Steve Buttry Scholarship Fund at the Manship School of Mass Communications at LSU.

We would like to thank everyone for the outpouring of love and support we’ve received since Steve’s passing. We will continue to moderate and post comments (though nowhere near as rapidly as Steve would) for the next couple of weeks.

Below are the links to several touching and publicly posted tributes about Steve. These are by no means comprehensive, and of course, don’t include all of the touching personal messages and comments we’ve received in the past few days.

One of the tributes that Steve would have loved is that his obituary led to the largest single day of traffic this site ever received (over 14,000 page views on Monday, and over 17,000 overall for his obituary so far). He also trended nationally on Twitter on Monday afternoon.

My Current story about journalism ethics in private behavior prompted a podcast on the topic by one of my former American University students. Here’s my “It’s All Journalism” podcast with Michael O’Connell: